Mark Farley and Clair Farley were born identical male twins. Six months ago, Clair changed her gender. Their story is told in a lovely, heartfelt documentary film, Red Without Blue. The film showed at Frameline 31, the LGBT [See the full post…]

Rob Reger is enjoying the thirteenth anniversary of his character “Emily the Strange.” Reger went to the graduate program at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he says he learned to push a project beyond its apparent limits. He has [See the full post…]

Faith Wheeler and Sara Barker are two highly original and successful food and wine branders. In an effort to make something of their own, they have written their first screenplay, which they submitted to a contest at the San Francisco [See the full post…]

Michael Taylor is the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s car section. He is also the son of screenwriter Samuel Taylor, who wrote plays and movies (including SabrinaÂ and Vertigo,Â which was made in San Francisco fifty years ago). [See the full post…]

Peter Morgan is perhaps the most celebrated screenwriter in the world right now, and he deserves to be. He’s written five plays — four screenplays and one stage play — that establish his oeuvre. He’s a great writer at the [See the full post…]

Lisa Loven is an ingenue from Norway. Right now in her country she is the star of a national advertising campaign for a food product. She moved to Los Angeles four months ago to become a movie actress. People I [See the full post…]

The San Francisco International Film Society has a new director, Graham Leggat. He (and about 50 other people, he tells me) put on a spectacular opening night for the 50th Anniversary. It’s the oldest film festival in America and it’s [See the full post…]

Shi-Zheng Chen is a renowned singer, choreographer and director of operas all over the world. I spoke with him at the San Francisco Asian Fim Festival, where his directorial debut feature film, “Dark Matter” played closing night. [See the full post…]

Lynn Hershman Leeson was a very early digital filmmaker and creator of virtual realities. She has made three films for the American theatrical market but had terrible trouble with distribution. I spoke with her about her new documentary, “Strange Culture.” [See the full post…]

Last weekend, the “Witness to War: Documentary Perspectives World War II to Iraq” was programmed by the inestimable and reliable Tom Luddy. He has had a long and varied career in the business that has, in part, resulted in [See the full post…]

This year, like movie fans around the world, Lucy Gray watched the Academy Awards with friends. Her group of friends that night included nine-time Oscar nominee (and three-time winner) Walter Murch. Murch is a film editor whose professional credits include [See the full post…]

Stephen Frears may not be entirely comfortable as an Oscar nominee. Lucy Gray remembers a conversation with him — back in 1985 — when he was focused on keeping his production costs down and his financial expectations about the same. [See the full post…]